Did Anglo Saxons Practice Magic? 🛖 Sorcery and Witchcraft in England
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- Опубликовано: 4 сен 2024
- In this video I talk about the topic of paganism and magic in Anglo Saxon England, delving into the sources we have and what people may have been doing and the gods and goddesses they worshipped. I also show you clips of a trip I took to an open air museum called Jarrow Hall, which has Anglo Saxon houses and information on the monk Bede.
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The vocab you described reminds me of the German word “Hexenschuss” for pains in the lower back “Witch shot”.
I was just about to write that too, then I saw your comment 😅
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Very interested in the Anglo-Saxon ways and magical practices and just there beliefs and ways. So thank you I hope you feel better soon. I am English, Irish,welch, Scottish so i real am very interested in learning more about them and there old ways of my Ancestors. Blessed Be ❤
I had noticed you hadn’t posted after being so regular for quite a long time. And was worried about you. I was so glad to see that you had put up a new video. I’m sorry you were so sick. Glad you’re better and back.
Fascinating isn’t it? And you can see how Christianity and paganism were all kind of wrapped up just my some of our Holidays we still celebrate. Christmas and Halloween, or Day of the Dead. (Día de Los muerdos). And to think every country in the world has a flood in its ancient history. Even to this day there’s blowing out the candles of your birthday cake for a wish to be granted. Or 4 leaf clover. Or rabbits foot. Even the Virgin Mary giving birth is quite magical. Jack Frost, house elves, ghosts or spirits. Those that are said to speak to the dead. Even angels seem almost faerie-like, with their wings and abilities to save and protect. Personally I believe there’s truth in all of it. Stories aren’t passed down for thousands of years without truth behind them. And it’s really sad that there isn’t a better written history available to us now. (Not saying that there never was, it was probably destroyed by the church at that time, to keep the people in line….or whatever they wanted.) And I grew up in a haunted house, and heard and saw many many things that would qualify as magical. Certainly Not scientific. Take care!
This is so wonderful! Thank you for your thorough research. I adore the Anglo-Saxon period & learning about what life was like for our ancestors.
Thank you for sharing your research and knowledge 🙏 I wonder if the Romans destroyed much of our written evidence of folk traditions. If you find yourself visiting the South Coast, I highly recommend a trip to Buster Ancient Farm, just outside Portsmouth and Weald & Downland Living Museum just outside Chichester 💫 Wishing you healing blessings 💫💜
Fun fact for folks - the name Tolkien is contained within the name Thorkelin who was the first translator of Beowulf, coincidence or Nominative determinism? Great video,
Cheers from Mercia
Fantastic. I love this. This is something that I believe will be very healing for some people more than you know. Because connecting to your roots is quite powerful. This was something that I always thought more people needed of, and I think Tolkien was right. As a kid I read two of his books. It always seems like stuff like this is soup for the soul in a way. It’s interesting to see some of the overlaps in things with folklore all over the world too.
Today is a wonderful day! Because you have given us a video❤I love your stories, and the information that you share with us. Thank you, and have a beautiful day🤗
Thank you for a lovely post! I have endless pride and love for my mum's (and therefore mine) people. Mum is from Weston-Supermare, and her mum, my Nan is from Wales for, most likely, thousands of years. The Celtic references always spark my interest. 😊
What a great video...I really didn't know the history of the Anglo Saxons. Thanks for sharing the Jarrow Hall video as well!
Thank you Luna, the video was excellent. How lovely it would be if we had more knowledge of the Anglo-Saxon, and the Celts, especially their medical practices. Just finished reading a novel based exactly where I live in Devon - Iron Age Celts. Magical stuff.
Also, I hope that you get well soon. So sad to hear that you've been sick😢Wonderful job as usual, and thank you again!
I so enjoy your videos. Very refreshing, while i was born in England I have spent my whole life from age 6 in Australian 1968. Listening to your very informative and fascinating way you relate to history I enjoy very much. Thank you
I just ordered the book "Dreamtime: Concerning the Boundary Between Wilderness and Civilization" which is centered around this topic. You might find it interesting. It's translated from German.
Thank you, I always learn so much from your videos
Best source for Anglo-Saxon evidence is The Odinic Rite. Other than that, the order known as "Independent Mercia" seek to maintain traditions.
I'm assuming that you've read The Way of Wyrd by Professor Brian Bates? It's a fiction book but it's based on the evidence that you mention in your video, specifically the Lacnunga. It's a beautiful story.
I love your videos! You are so informative and knowledgeable.
Really enjoyed your video, very informative! Thank you and blessed be!
I’ve really enjoyed learning from your videos, thank you ☺️
This was very interesting. I'm always fascinated to learn the history of word origins. I've got to try some mugwort tea! Glad you're feeling better! ☺️
Thank you for putting so much time into these videos, I find them very interesting.
There is a hypothesis, based on place names, that some of the tribes that inhabited Britain before the Romans invaded spoke Germanic languages. I would be interested to see more research on the topic because the idea that everyone in Britain before the Roman invasion spoke a Celtic language is based on the assumption that they must have done so because the only languages that survived the Roman and Anglo-Saxon invasions that we know about are Celtic.
Scotland is a whole other can of worms, I've even seen arguments that Pictish may not have been an Indo-European language, and other arguments that there were already Q-Celtic speakers in Scotland before the Scots king invited the Irish over.
This was very cool and interesting. I enjoyed it very much. I hope you are feeling better 🤗Much love and many Blessings! 💘💘🙏🙏
Thanks for the post Luna ❤❤😊
I love this. Thank you. I will try to look up more about Anglo Saxons.
Fascinating. You might find Montague Summers writings in respect to the history of Witchcraft useful also.
I live in America, but I have a big Anglo-Saxon heritage and this video was great. Love to learn about the history and culture of my ancestors. I hope you feel better soon!
Blessed Be! ❤️✨
Love this!
Thank you! I find your videos very interesting!❤😊 hope you feel better soon! 🌸
Very informative, thanks
Love all your videos
Magic is just form of science that the humans do not understand. For 18th century peasant a smartphone is magical object.
I think you’re confusing stage performances with real magic. Anyway, I’m glad YOU understand how a smartphone works!!!! 😂😂
@@sleepingphoenix1281You're so condescending and probably a narcissist because you believe you're omniscient. Lmao
Humans
Do not understand.....where have you been living under a buried rock..humans have mastered magic and withcraft since the days of old..what is a wizard and a high preistess Wiccan..masters of the art..keep your ignorance to yourself since it seems to dwell and feed on knowing nothing on this particular art form..leave this to the spirits that know and live it 247 and breathe the teaching as a way of life and existing within 4 winds and universal elements to guide us in to becoming teachers of the art not novice beginners of nothingness as you cling to hold🌜🌕🌛
but modern humans in a modern society right now would never mistake any tech for magic no matter how advanced.
@@sleepingphoenix1281no, most accused witches just knew how to heal with herbs, that's literally science they didn't understand
Just a side note about pronunciation: Wicca/Wicce would have been pronounced with a "ch" sound in Old English/Anglo-Saxon, so it would have been said "WITCH-ah/WITCH-eh".
I'm not a linguistics expert, but your Old English pronunciation sounds fantastic. I've tried and it doesn't sound nearly as natural.
What name brand is your sweater! I love it so, and wish to get one!
I wish you a speedy recovery…
I'm not sure sure, sorry! It's from a charity shop and has no label. Thank you :)
Loved the video tho! You have a great voice too!
🎩Hi 😺 there is a great book called “Aspects of Anglo Saxon Magic” by Bill Griffiths that has the original texts and modern translations. Especially as I am rubbish at reading Middle English. Though trying to learn it.
you sound like you live just up the road from me, maybe gateshead area. that's awesome. very bonny lass.
Toilken was definitely wrong about the english not having any stories. Maybe none that he liked, and maybe he didn't consider the briton or anglo pantheons english? It's a misconceptions that Anglo mythology is just norse mythology with different names. Also we have our own celtic stores. And medieval folklore, all kinds of creatures and famous stories like Robin hood and so on.
I think he is referring to stories older than that, pre-medieval, pre-Robin Hood and King Arthur etc, and even separate from Celtic or Irish mythology. We don't really have written record of any English stories from pre-Anglo Saxon times. Thanks for watching!
@@Lunaleodrune i don't think many countries or cultures have written stories from pre Anglo or celtic times😅😅 that would be a miracle.
I think King Arthur's origin is Welsh, but I might be misremembering ❤
@@joanne1dreams Arthurian legend has history and writers from across England and Wales. England and Wales share the same celtic heritage of Brittonic. Scotland and Ireland are Gael. Arthurian legend is Brittonic, there's history across Wales hut lots in Cornwall, Devon, somerset and other places.
Have you heard of the Bock Saga? I’ve just come across it latley
Could you recommend to me some books about the English paganism source please.
Pagan Britain by Ronald Hutton is a good place to start
@@Lunaleodrune thank you 😊
The idea that the English came into Britain in a large scale invasion following Romes collapse doesn't sit that well with me. It's an event that can't really be verified by archaeology.
The Romans certainly brought Germans into Britain as Auxiliaries to act as protection against the Native Celts. But following Romes' exit from the island there is more evidence of co-operation and intermingling between the Celts and the Germanic peoples. This extends to the progenitors of kingdoms like Wessex and Mercia that seem very blurred with Celtic identity.
I can't help thinking that possibly there was a strong connection between the Jutland peninsular and Northern Europe going right back to the days of Diggerland. Possibly there has almost always been a definite Anglian influence/presence in the east of the island of Britain.
The Romans certainly said that the population of southern Brutain closest to Gaul was more Gaulish in culture. Maybe the same can be said for the Eastern part of Britain extending into the German Sea?
I think I may have phrased this a little oddly. I didn't mean they invaded en masse right after the Romans left, but more that the Roman cultural influence mostly left the country and over time, Germanic people came and blended with the culture and added their influence. England is certainly a big mish-mash of all sorts of cultures.
Chest infection? I can send you Reiki if you want me to.
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